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Tunga (flea)

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Genus of fleas

Tunga
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Siphonaptera
Family:	Hectopsyllidae
Genus:	Tunga Jarocki, 1838

Tunga is a genus of fleas belonging to the family Hectopsyllidae.

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.

Species:

Tunga bondari Wagner, 1932
Tunga caecata (Enderlein, 1901)
Tunga penetrans Linnaeus, 1758

References

"Tunga". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Retrieved 16 July 2022.
"Tunga In: NCBI Taxonomy". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
^ "Tunga". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 7 April 2021.

Taxon identifiers
Tunga	Wikidata: Q15631005 Wikispecies: Tunga CoL: 83Q5 EoL: 78292 EPPO: 1TUNGG GBIF: 1419288 iNaturalist: 252919 IRMNG: 1293661 NCBI: 140713 Open Tree of Life: 899617

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